Lansdown is a suburb of the World Heritage City of Bath, England, that extends northwards from the city centre up a road of the same name. Among its most distinctive architectural features are Lansdown Crescent[2] and Sion Hill Place,[3] which includes a campus of Bath Spa University.
| Lansdown | |
|---|---|
| Suburb | |
 Lansdown Crescent | |
  Lansdown Location within Somerset | |
| Population | 4,589 (2011, ward)[1] |
| OS grid reference | ST747662 |
| Unitary authority | |
| Ceremonial county | |
| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Bath |
| Police | Avon and Somerset |
| Fire | Avon |
| Ambulance | South Western |
| UK Parliament | |
Beckford's Tower, an architectural folly built in neo-classical style for William Thomas Beckford in 1827, stands on high ground at the northern edge of the suburb, overlooking Lansdown Cemetery.[4]
Lansdown Hill edit
Lansdown Road climbs north-west through the suburb and continues into open land in Charlcombe parish, past a park-and-ride facility and playing fields to the Lansdown Hill area. Here (outside the city boundary) are Lansdown hamlet, Bath Racecourse, and Lansdown Golf Course.
The Battle of Lansdowne (1643) was fought in the vicinity[5] and is commemorated by Sir Bevil Grenville's Monument (1720) on Lansdown Hill.[6]
Cricket club edit
Lansdown Cricket Club, founded in 1825 and the oldest club in Somerset, originally played at a ground called "Cricket Down" next to the original racecourse on the top of Lansdown Hill and close to Beckford's Tower (the current Bath Racecourse is about a mile to the west); later the club moved into Bath at the Sydenham Field, and when that was built over by the Midland Railway in 1869 it moved to its current ground adjacent to the Royal United Hospital at Combe Park, which is in Lower Weston.
See also edit
References edit
- ^ "Ward population 2011". Retrieved 7 April 2015.
- ^ "1 to 20 Lansdown Crescent". Images of England. Archived from the original on 2 May 2015. Retrieved 14 November 2006.
- ^ "Summerhill and numbers 1 to 9". Images of England. English Heritage. Archived from the original on 18 October 2012. Retrieved 3 September 2009.
- ^ "Beckford's Tower & Mortuary Chapel, Lansdown Cemetery". Images of England. Archived from the original on 2 February 2008. Retrieved 2 October 2007.
- ^ "Sir Bevil Grenville's Monument". English Heritage. Retrieved 20 July 2009.
- ^ Historic England. "Monument to Sir Bevil Grenville (1214434)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 7 November 2021.
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